]]>Comment on Olympus Bird Photography: Part Four – The Olympus E-M1 versus the Canon 7D Mk II by back to uSchoolnethttps://mirrorlessplanet.com/2016/01/olympus-bird-photography-part-four-the-olympus-e-m1-versus-the-canon-7d-mk-ii/#comment-3137
Tue, 06 Nov 2018 13:15:16 +0000http://mirrorlessplanet.com/?p=1905#comment-3137I don’t commonly comment but I gotta state thank you for the
post on this perfect one :D.
]]>Comment on Olympus Bird Photography: Part Six – Birding Lenses for Micro Four-Thirds by Peter Littlehttps://mirrorlessplanet.com/2016/06/olympus-bird-photography-part-six-birding-lenses-for-micro-four-thirds/#comment-3079
Fri, 26 Oct 2018 08:03:30 +0000http://mirrorlessplanet.com/?p=2171#comment-3079Hi Loran
Great articles, I am using the four thirds 300mm f2.8 and 90 – 250mm f2.8 with x 1.4 and x2 teleconverters with my EM1 set to CA-F +TR and getting reasonable results.

Regards

Peter

]]>Comment on “Advanced” Casual Food Photography by Jm Granthttps://mirrorlessplanet.com/2018/08/advanced-casual-food-photography/#comment-2910
Sun, 26 Aug 2018 18:29:26 +0000http://mirrorlessplanet.com/?p=2849#comment-2910Nice post. My wife and I travel and enjoy taking pictures of our food, usually with a phone. Still it captures the moment in time.

Glad to see this post and that you are back to the blog. Missed you and your insights.

]]>Comment on Olympus Bird Photography: Part Five – General Photography Techniques and Settings by Lorenhttps://mirrorlessplanet.com/2016/06/olympus-bird-photography-part-five-general-photography-techniques-and-settings/#comment-2870
Wed, 08 Aug 2018 20:13:53 +0000http://mirrorlessplanet.com/?p=1967#comment-2870Greg, when you say that the other runners are off-frame if you focus on your grandson, are you keeping the focus point at the center of the frame? You want to compose the shot so that your grandson is on the right of the frame, and (I am envisioning, but please correct me if I am misunderstanding the scenario) the other runners will be in front of him.

One method is to move the focus point to the right of the frame so that all the runners are shown, and rely on the camera’s autofocus to take the shot just as they go by. It may depend on how you have your camera buttons set up, but normally you can move the focus point by pressing the d-pad arrows. Make sure you are using a small enough focus point to isolate on your grandson. This one is easy to set up, but there is a possibility that the AF will miss — for example, if you shoot too soon before he crosses the focus point. So there is a better way…

If you want to avoid any possibility that the AF will hone in on one of the other runners, you can trap focus instead. Try to pre-focus at that spot beforehand (again, by moving the focus point to the right side so that you know your composition will capture all of the runners). Maybe have someone stand there for a moment until you can get your focus. Then you can freeze that focus with your camera’s Focus Lock feature. Or, instead of Focus Lock, you can put the camera on Manual Focus and do the same thing. It will still hone focus only where you have moved the focus point. Either way, when your grandson goes by later, you know exactly when to be shooting as he crosses that area of focus. There is no chance that the AF will move to one of the other runners, even if you miss your timing. This allows you to set the camera for Sequential High speed burst and start shooting early, just to make sure that you capture the exact moment. A Sequential High burst doesn’t move focus after the first shot, but this won’t matter. Again, be sure to maintain the same composition you set up with, so that your grandson is on the far right side of the frame. You can even use Pro Capture, if you want. I might even recommend using a tripod so you don’t lose the positioning you set up.

With all the commotion of a race, a C-AF+T method would be more difficult and with less chance of success, so I would definitely recommend a trap method. Nevertheless, if you wanted to try C-AF, I would probably use the Focus Limit feature and set it to the distance of the far lane. The tighter your short and long end limits are, the more chance there is the C-AF will lock on your grandson. Again, a small focus point and really good panning skills would be necessary. In order to keep the camera from switching targets if another runner crosses in front of him, you would want to set the camera C-AF Sensitivity to “Tight” (I think they changed that to “Low” after the last firmware update, if I recall correctly?).

]]>Comment on Olympus Bird Photography: Part Five – General Photography Techniques and Settings by Greg Mhttps://mirrorlessplanet.com/2016/06/olympus-bird-photography-part-five-general-photography-techniques-and-settings/#comment-2851
Tue, 31 Jul 2018 10:15:12 +0000http://mirrorlessplanet.com/?p=1967#comment-2851A focussing question not quite to do with bif but with action photography nonetheless.
Using EM-1 Mk 2 with Oly 40-150 2.8 pro to take 7 sprint runners, including grandson,spread across the track from front on (from a rise behind the finish line). Grandson is in far right lane as one looks at the approaching field. Good light and assume ISO, shutter settings etc are OK. I want grandson in sharp focus but other runners in the shot for effect. They do not have to be in focus. If I swing focus point to grandson most or all of the other runners are out of the frame. How do I set focus on him and yet keep other runners, or most of them, in the frame? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance
]]>Comment on Olympus Bird Photography: Part Six – Birding Lenses for Micro Four-Thirds by Ziggyhttps://mirrorlessplanet.com/2016/06/olympus-bird-photography-part-six-birding-lenses-for-micro-four-thirds/#comment-2407
Wed, 21 Mar 2018 19:06:48 +0000http://mirrorlessplanet.com/?p=2171#comment-2407Yes Peter. Coincidentally I’ve just acquired that Nikon rig as the G9 (and G85) systematically fails to lock on a distant bird against a busy background. It gives you leaves, or grass or rippled water. It does do well though picking a bird out of a busy foreground.
]]>Comment on Olympus Bird Photography: Part Six – Birding Lenses for Micro Four-Thirds by Pete Draperhttps://mirrorlessplanet.com/2016/06/olympus-bird-photography-part-six-birding-lenses-for-micro-four-thirds/#comment-2406
Wed, 21 Mar 2018 15:29:29 +0000http://mirrorlessplanet.com/?p=2171#comment-2406When I owned 2 x Olympus EM1 bodies I fitted a PanaLeica 100 – 400 f4.5/6.3 to one and an Olympus 300mm f4 (with and without a 1.4 TC) to the other. When I part exchanged the EM1’s for a single EM1 mark II I decided to sell one of the lenses (I also own a Nikon D500 with a Nikkor 200 – 500mm f5.6 and Nikkor 300mm f4 PF VR). Much as I enjoyed the light weight and versatility of the 100 – 400mm, when I tested it against the two 300mm lenses it came third for quality. I therefore sold my 100 – 400mm. It is a great lens, but for me the quality of the image trumped the veratility of the 100 – 400mm.
]]>Comment on Olympus Bird Photography: Part Six – Birding Lenses for Micro Four-Thirds by Ziggyhttps://mirrorlessplanet.com/2016/06/olympus-bird-photography-part-six-birding-lenses-for-micro-four-thirds/#comment-2405
Wed, 21 Mar 2018 08:51:18 +0000http://mirrorlessplanet.com/?p=2171#comment-2405Indeed.
Fully extended the 100-400 has a horizontal FOV of around 3 degrees, and it takes a lot of practice to swing the camera to the eye and have the bird in the frame. Here the zoom allows you to compose more easily and novices can get some keepers.
]]>Comment on Olympus Bird Photography: Part Six – Birding Lenses for Micro Four-Thirds by Greg Mhttps://mirrorlessplanet.com/2016/06/olympus-bird-photography-part-six-birding-lenses-for-micro-four-thirds/#comment-2404
Wed, 21 Mar 2018 06:31:02 +0000http://mirrorlessplanet.com/?p=2171#comment-2404I am inclined to agree with Ziggy that Oly 300 plus teleconverter has an edge in image quality, having used that combo as well as the PanLeica.
But of course it is not a zoom lens and I have been caught with a perched bird moving suddenly in my direction, too close for the Oly 300, whereas I could have been in with a chance with zoom.
Can’t have it all ways I suppose.
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